[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23333: New icons
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Tue Feb 5 23:32:53 UTC 2013
#23333: New icons
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Reporter: empireoflight | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 3.6
Component: Administration | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: ui-focus |
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Comment (by empireoflight):
It's difficult to properly design and even more so to scale the old ones
as they are currently designed. The icons I've seen designed in the wild
are a mixed bag; unless someone is decent at photoshop, they tend to look
muddy and just "off" and they're usually not properly scaled or aligned,
shadows are wrong, etc. We need a style that anyone can recreate fairly
well.
When I first did them back in 2008, retina wasn't a buzzword yet. 16x16
and 32x32 was easy enough. Now we need 2x, or 64x64, or who knows what;
the naming of the files themselves is problematic. Icons and fonts are
merging. We read icons as we read text, more than ever before. When icons
are like little paintings next to their labels, there's a disconnect. It's
like before the printing press, books were hand-written and filled with
all kinds of embellishment, but after printing came about all the letters
looked the same. Sure, there was beauty lost there, but ultimately it had
to happen.
@jjj—App icons are a different animal; they are more about branding a
product than anything else, and therefore should be colorful and attention
grabbing. UI Icons should be vector-based (if that means "flat", whatever)
like text; whether that ends up being SVG or a web font remains to be
seen, but in the meantime these set the groundwork for that.
@melchoyce—funny you should compare them to the WP.com icons; I designed
those too!
@helen—that's exactly it; I want to make it so anyone can design these and
you don't have to rely on me when we need new ones or versions.
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